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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.31): Oculus becomes Facebook Reality Labs, Horizon gets revealed and more!

The Ghost Howls

Apple acquires startup SPACES. What is sure is that Apple continues to slowly build its AR and VR technology, so that one day it could come out with something amazing. What is sure is that Apple continues to slowly build its AR and VR technology, so that one day it could come out with something amazing. Some viral videos.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

The incumbents have an advantage with existing mapping such as Google Maps, Earth, Street View, Apple Maps and the Indoor Maps Program, and Bing Maps but there are also significant geographic data players such as Foursquare and OpenStreetMap. Insane, yet companies are mapping it already.

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My Taiwanese XR Chronicles part 1: Cave, zSpace, Brogent hands-on

The Ghost Howls

This also means that there is more contamination from the West and also from Japan, considering that this island was part of Japan various years ago. Even worse, it wasn’t able to track my finger movements well (it was worse than Leap Motion … and Leap Motion doesn’t have worn sensors!).

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

XROM

While at Zynga, he co-created the game FarmVille and served as the CTO of Zynga Japan. Previously she was one of the first employees at NextVR ( acquired by Apple ), a virtual reality company focused on live entertainment across music and sports. 14- Kai Liang. 17- Helen Situ. Helen Situ is currently working on a new company.